I find that screenwriting is at best kind of a hackwork in some ways.

I became a loner. I became a mountain man. A lot of those things are very good qualities and they help you do your work, help you be singular and keep the artistic integrity of your work intact, but they don't make it very easy to live your life.

Everybody's a filmmaker today.

Most artists think they're frauds anyway.

I've always been able to survive by writing, though.

Charging a man with murder in this place was like handing out speeding tickets at the Indy 500.

I've always had trouble with authority.